Tranquillina - Singara Issue

Furia Sabinia Tranquillina (c. 225 – aft. 244) was the Empress of Rome and wife of Emperor Gordian III. She was the young daughter of the Praetorian Prefect Timesitheus by an unknown wife.

In 241 her father was appointed the head of the Praetorian Guard by the Roman Emperor Gordian III. In May that year, Tranquillina had married Gordian. She became a Roman Empress and received the honorific title of Augusta. Her marriage to Gordian was an admission by the young emperor of both Timesitheus' political indispensability and Tranquillina’s suitability as an empress. (Courtesy Wikipedia)

Tranquillina Augusta, 241-244 C.E.
AE25, 10.7g
MESOPOTAMIA, Singara
Obverse: SAB TRANQVILLINA AVG, Diademed and draped bust right
Reverse: Veiled Bust of Tyche Right; Centaur Sagittarius leaping right and discharging bow above
Reference: BMC Arabia p. 136, 14; SNG Copenhagen 258

I recently won this coin at auction in @John Anthony 's latest auction.





Please post your Tranquillinas or Singara coins here.

 

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I don't have any myself but nice coin very nice detail and story.

 

My only one of her.


Tranquillina (241 - 244 A.D.)
Æ 21
Cappadocia, Caesarea Year 7 = 244 AD
O: CAB TPANKVLLINA AVG,Diademed and draped bust of right.
R: MHTP KAI B NE ET-Z, Six grain ears bound together.
6.1g
21mm
Syd 618

 

Very nice @ancient coin hunter ! Nice write up and great coin! Nice and hefty.

I have none from the Singara mint (sounds cool as it is Mesopotamia). I see at a quick glance that acsearch does not have too many listings.

Here is my Tranquilina:


RI Prv Thrace Deultum Tranquillina 241-244 CE Æ 22mm 6-6 g Hermes purse caduceus SNG Bulgaria 1504-8

 

Another interesting pickup, @ancientone

I hate to nitpick but those images are so dark that few details are seen. Why not just use JA's images, or at least show them in addition to yours?

 

Interesting pickup, @ancientone


TRANQUILLINA
AE23
OBVERSE: CAB TPANKVLLEINA CEB, diademed & draped bust right
REVERSE: ADRIANOPOLEITWN, Artemis running right, holding bow, drawing arrow from quiver behind shoulder, dog running at her feet
Struck at Hadrianopolis, 241-43 AD
6.1g, 23mm
Moushmov 2764

 

I actually had to take several photos in order to get these images @TIF - kinda dark I agree but the coin has a nice black patina. Next time I'll try to use more light, rather than the natural daylight. Thanks for the feedback and I'll see if I can post John's original image.

 

Very nice @@ancient coin hunter. The picture seems dark on my monitor. It might be worth lightening digitally.


Thrace, Deultum. Tranquillina (241-244AD) AE22 6.64g
Obv: SAB TRANQVILLINA AVG; Draped bust right, wearing stephane
Rev: [COL FL] PAC DEVLT Perseus and Andromeda standing facing one another; Andromeda on left with left hand raised, Perseus on right, holding harpa and gorgon’s head, releasing Andromeda from her chains; sea-monster turned to stone below.
Youroukova, Deultum 411; SNG Bulgaria 1518-20; Varbanov 2945. Mionnet Suppl. II #574

 

That's a very nice mythological theme on the reverse Ed. Congrats on having this coin in your collection. Thanks for the editing tip, too.

 

Very beautyfull Tranquillina , ancient coin hunter , congrats.

Had to lighten up your pic to see the beauty of this coin



Here's my ugly duckling of the same coin:



Hope Randygeki will show his coin too, also a BMC 14.

 

This is JA's photo of the OP coin.



Much better, and I can see the reverse. Before looking at this picture, OPs picture made me think the reverse featured a heard of elephants or a pile of rocks

 

I love the history and the coins. Thank you.

I always need to do a little review of those third century Roman emperors (and their wives):





(Tranquillina is my guest, but these are not my pictures.)

 

Cool posts everyone!!

I lack any of Tranquillina and none struck from Singara

 

Here is a Gordian III of Singara, Mesopotamia.

20 mm. 7.50 grams.
Centaur Sagittarius galloping right and shooting bow
Legionary standard behind
Lindgren and Kovacs 2625. BMC Greek --, McClaean --, Weber --, Hunterian --, SNG Milano --, Winesman Falghera --, SNG Swiss II --, SNG Copenhagen and supplement --, Lindgren III --, Peus 366 --.

Rare.

 

Nice portrait and fine little centaur!

 

I really considered bidding on that coin, it's nice! I dig that little centaur. Tranquillina is still on my list.

 

nice

 

Here's mine, an obverse die-match to Alegandron's coin but with a different reverse:


Tranquillina AD 241-244
Roman provincial Æ 24.1 mm, 8.06 g
Thrace, Deultum, AD 241-244
Obv: SAB TRANQVILLINA AVG, diademed and draped bust, right
Rev: COL FL PAC DEVLT, Marsyas as Silenus facing right, carrying wine skin over left shoulder and raising right arm
Refs: Moushmov 3757; Youroukova 425, 4/II; cf. SNG Cop 549.

 

By means of Provincial coinage only can I provide her portrait in silver with a drachm from Caesaria in Cappadocia:


Draped bust right; CABINV TPANKVLLIANE (read SABINU TRANQUILLIANE)

Mt. Argaeus; pellet to upper right, MHTPO KAIC B N ? // ET E; (date = Regnal Year 5) in exergue. (E=epsilon)



AE25 Anchialos
Gordian III and Tranquillina face to face, [...]ANT GOPDIANO KAI CEB TPANKVL/ LINA

Diana with bow in l hand and patera in outstreched r hand. Stag l at feet.
OVLPIANWN AGXIALEIN (=Anchialos)


I'm not sure about the denomination for this coin, but it is not as large as the typical Pentassarion. It could be a Tetrassarion. But I just love the way the stag is represented.

 

@Irbguy showed you can find Gordian III and Tranquillina together on a coin. Balkan cities in the era often have busts vis-a-vis. Here are Gordian III and Tranquillina together on coins of Mesopotamia including Singara (the mint city of the OP coin) and Nisibis.


Large at 33-30 mm. Busts of Gordian III and Tranquillina face to face.
Greek legend:
AVTOK K M ANT ΓOPΔIANON CAB TPANKVΛΛINACEB
Tyche seated left on rocks, centaur (Sagittarius) left above, (tiny) river god swimming at her feet left
AVPCEHK OΛ CINΓAPA (Singara)
BMC 8. Sear Greek Imperial 3804



Large at 32 mm. Busts of Gordian III and Tranquilina face to face.
Greek legend:
AVTOK K M AN ΓOPΔIANON CAB TPANKVΛΛINA CEB
Tyche seated left on rocks, centaur (Sagittarius) left above, river god swimming at her feet left
CEΠ KOΛ O NECIBI MHTPO (Nisibis, Metropolis)

I recently bought an e-book entitled "The Nisibis War: The Defense of the Roman East, AD 337-363." I am not done with it yet, but it seems very good and at $1.23 on Amazon it is a bargain.